1 hr 10 min PLAY Alice Osborn and David Poston – Socially conscious poetry, essays and songs on Charlotte Readers Podcast Listen on Apple Podcasts In today’s episode, we meet poet and prose writers Alice Osborn and David Poston, who share their socially conscious...
In great tragedies we often look for heroes—they sacrificed and saved others who couldn’t save themselves. In the Donner Party story there are a few heroes among those families looking out only for themselves. One of my favorites is carriage-maker (or coffin-maker,...
Why does the Old West fascinate us so much? Maybe because it’s America’s origin myth of ordinary people seeking a better life, new adventures, more money, and more freedoms, of course at the cost of the folks who were already there—the Indians and Mexicans. The Old...
